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PizzaExpress is looking to raise sterling bonds to refinance its capital structure, after bondholders took control of it last year from Chinese private equity group Hony Capital. -
Asia's investment grade bond market is off to a busy start for the week, while pressure on the high yield sector continues to keep borrowers at bay.
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Only HSBC and RBC Capital Markets are underwriting Fortress’s £9.5bn bid to take UK supermarket chain Morrisons private, while only Morgan Stanley is advising Apollo on its potential rival bid. This leaves plenty of scope for other banks to team up with sponsors to make rival offers.
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SoftBank returned to euro and dollar bond markets after a three year absence to issue an eight tranche deal, raising more than $7bn-equivalent from total demand of more than $16bn, and hitting every empty spot in its funding curve at once.
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Natasha Harrison, the heir apparent to fabled law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, told GlobalCapital that while she was not expecting a collapse in corporate credit coming out of the coronavirus, there will be big opportunities for sophisticated distressed debt investors.
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Hurricane Energy’s restructuring plan has been thrown out by the High Court, in a victory for shareholders led by activist fund Crystal Amber, which are now poised to replace the board of the troubled oil drilling firm. The judgement underlines the care with which companies must exercise when seeking to use the new ‘cross-class cramdown’ features of the UK’s restructuring law.
